From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 20 22: 9:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE2837B860 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:09:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA07228; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:09:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id WAA88573; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 22:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200006210509.WAA88573@vashon.polstra.com> To: chris@awww.jeah.net Subject: Re: ports-supfile In-Reply-To: <200006210502.AAA68528@awww.jeah.net> References: <200006210502.AAA68528@awww.jeah.net> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: ports@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <200006210502.AAA68528@awww.jeah.net>, Chris Byrnes wrote: > # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line. > *default compress > > > What exactly is "default compress" Not to suggest anything too radical ... but you _could_ try RTFMing the CVSUP(1) man page ... :-) To answer your question, that line enables gzip-style compression of the traffic that goes over the network. It's a lose on fast enough networks because when the network is fast CVSup is limited more by disk I/O than by network I/O. In that case doing the compression just chews up CPU without providing any speedup. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message